"brown thumb" meaning in All languages combined

See brown thumb on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-brown thumb.ogg Forms: brown thumbs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} brown thumb (plural brown thumbs)
  1. (idiomatic) Lack of skill at growing plants; something possessed by a poor gardener. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: green thumb Translations (lack of skill at growing plants): viherpeukalo keskellä kämmentä (Finnish), pouce brun [Quebec, masculine] (French)

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brown thumbs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "brown thumb (plural brown thumbs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I have a terrible brown thumb. I could probably kill silk flowers.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lack of skill at growing plants; something possessed by a poor gardener."
      ],
      "id": "en-brown_thumb-en-noun-ZYywXFmy",
      "links": [
        [
          "plant",
          "plant"
        ],
        [
          "garden",
          "garden"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Lack of skill at growing plants; something possessed by a poor gardener."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "green thumb"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lack of skill at growing plants",
          "word": "viherpeukalo keskellä kämmentä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "lack of skill at growing plants",
          "tags": [
            "Quebec",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pouce brun"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-brown thumb.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/En-au-brown_thumb.ogg/En-au-brown_thumb.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/En-au-brown_thumb.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brown thumb"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brown thumbs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "brown thumb (plural brown thumbs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "green thumb"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I have a terrible brown thumb. I could probably kill silk flowers.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lack of skill at growing plants; something possessed by a poor gardener."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "plant",
          "plant"
        ],
        [
          "garden",
          "garden"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Lack of skill at growing plants; something possessed by a poor gardener."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-brown thumb.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/En-au-brown_thumb.ogg/En-au-brown_thumb.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/En-au-brown_thumb.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lack of skill at growing plants",
      "word": "viherpeukalo keskellä kämmentä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lack of skill at growing plants",
      "tags": [
        "Quebec",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pouce brun"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brown thumb"
}

Download raw JSONL data for brown thumb meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.